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Religious Studies September 1, 2020 Adam Green
Abstract: In this article, I use the extended mind literature to elucidate religious phenomena that are normally left well outside the purview of analytic philosophy of religion. I show that the extended mind literature casts light on how the potential relationships of the ordinary believer to extra-natural power dictate cross-culturally re-occurring ways of structuring religious praxis. This...
Distributed Cognition in Victorian Culture and Modernism September 1, 2020 Emily T. Troscianko
Nietzsche’s writing and thought about the mind challenge some of the same Cartesian dichotomies that the more recent frameworks of 4E and distributed cognition do. Zur Genealogie der Moral (On the Genealogy of Morals), a highpoint in Nietzsche’s project of the ‘Umwertung aller Werte’ (revaluation of all values), is a proclamation of perspectivism: there is no objective perception and nothing...
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies September 1, 2020 William J. Coburn 1 citation
I was once, or, I should say, many times, out of my body.This was when, decades ago, sensory deprivation tanks were de rigueur on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles.I can reliably say I had transcendental experiences, some of which were "out of body," but then once the black, warm saltwater catapulted me into a panic attack, that was it for me.Never again.I often wonder what additional...
Cognition September 2020 Cameron M Doyle, Kurt Gray
Immortality is thought to be achieved through heroic deeds, reincarnation, and the afterlife. The present studies reveal an alternative path to transcending death: dying while conscious. Seven studies demonstrate that dying while more awake, aware and/or lucid leads people to see a richer postmortem mind-an effect we call conservation of consciousness. People see more mind in the deceased when...
Distributed Cognition in Victorian Culture and Modernism September 1, 2020 Peter J. Garratt
The modern identification of the mind with the brain has its roots in the intellectual traditions of the nineteenth century. Isolating the brain as the seat of mental experience, and as the organ of the mind, emerged in the empirical work of Franz Joseph Gall and Johann Spurzheim and became a central, normative assumption of Romantic and Victorian culture, cutting across literary and...
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies September 1, 2020 Terry Marks-Tarlow
The role of science has been controversial within the nascent field of transpersonal psychology. Traditional linear and reductionist models are insufficient to address rare and unreproducible states of mind, fringe rather than normative experiences, and highly personal or culturally specific aspects of awareness. Through a fractal epistemology this paper introduces novel metaphors, models, and...
Distributed Cognition in Victorian Culture and Modernism September 1, 2020 Kerry Watson
This chapter discusses how the Surrealists engaged with techniques like automatic drawing, the exquisite corpse, collage, frottage and decalcomania, and how this might be interpreted in the context of theories of distributed cognition, enactivism, embodiment, and the extended mind. The Surrealists’ use of ‘objective chance’ was driven by a belief in the existence of an unconscious state of mind...
Journal of Maharishi Vedic Research Institute September 1, 2020 Geoffrey A. Wells, Lee Fergusson, Anna Bonshek
We come now to the final steps in Maharishi’s supreme vision of the possibilities open to human life: the sixth and seventh states of consciousness. Here, Maharishi teaches, is found the pinnacle of human development, the state of glorified life that the human mind and body are designed to live, which, through his simple technologies of consciousness, is open to anyone. Maharishi’s published...
Journal of Maharishi Vedic Research Institute September 1, 2020 Geoffrey A. Wells, Lee Fergusson, Anna Bonshek
We have emphasised Maharishi’s description of Transcendental Meditation as a technique. In this context, we have described some of the remarkable and beneficial changes it brings to both mind and body during the period of practice. Maharishi also, however, speaks of his. Transcendental Meditation program. This refers to the fact that Transcendental Meditation is practiced twice a day, in the...
Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness September 1, 2020 Henry Shevlin
The science of consciousness has made great strides in recent decades. However, the proliferation of competing theories makes it difficult to reach consensus about artificial consciousness. While for purely scientific purposes we might wish to adopt a ‘wait and see’ attitude, we may soon face practical and ethical questions about whether, for example, agents artificial systems are capable of...